Archives for 2014
Ski Instructor Training
Last season Beci an experienced ES instructor and photographer headed out with some of the girls training with Emma Cairns to shoot a Verbier staff training session in April. Here are some of her photo’s. At ES we do a lot of ski instructor training, we find it helps attract the best instructors who are passionate about skiing at the top of their game.
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Indoor Sky Diving Near Verbier
Verbier Ski School Operations Head Rachel Tugwell Went to check out Sion’s new Realfly facility.
At the start of this summer i was fortunate to experience Realfly in Sion. REALFLY is the first indoor skydiving simulator in Switzerland. The building reaches a height of 24 meters, and another 7 metres underground giving around 30 metres of air circuits.
I had a professionally trained instructor called Mathieu who accompanied me throughout the equipment phase, during my flight, as well as for my post flight debrief. He gave me great support during my first free fall session… Which was such a fantastic sensation!
The concept is based on a blowing system installed in a tunnel that recreates the real thrill of free-fall allowing you to discover the sensations similar to those of a parachute jump. It was absolutely amazing and i would recommend it to anyone who is even just the slightest bit interested. They will even take children from 5 years old so its a great activity for the whole family. Go any try it for yourself…”
More photo’s soon
Rachel
Verbier Snowboard School ES Ride
Meet the ES PDG Team
This year ES are entering a team into the PDG (Patrouille Des Glaciers). It’s a ski mountaineering race from Zermatt to Verbier. In this video we meet the team.
CW7 Consulting & Events
CW7 Consulting & Events is an independent, boutique consultancy which operates between Verbier, Geneva and Gstaad. With a flexible and conscientious approach, the aim is to deliver professional events and create innovative, meaningful experiences for those clients and families seeking attention to detail together with the personal touch.
Jenny Jones Wins First GB Sochi Olympic Medal
The snowboard slopestyle has made its debut at Sochi and saw riders take on a daunting downhill course of metal rails and massive jumps.
Massive congratulations to all the British athletes and a special mention to Jenny Jones for a bronze medal today!
Britain had an impressive slopestyle showing on Saturday with two riders, Jamie Nicholls and Billy Morgan, making the final and finishing in the top 10.
The success of the British team has a huge impact on the sport of Snowboarding and is ’cool’ once again so get yourself along to Verbier and join one of our team from ES-Ride Snowboard school and learn some of the slopestyle tricks with us.
You can learn freestyle from day one on a snowboard and you can continue to progress to a higher level we offer professional freestyle and slopestyle coaching for everyone!
Come and experience the thrill of this exciting and friendly sport with us now!
Find us at http://www.es-ride.com/ , https://europeansnowsport.com/